Intel Files Lawsuit Against Nvidia

[Sr7]

Each company should and does have the choice to charge or not for tech they invested in.

I think you go it mixed up. I said "If Intel has to pay nVidia for the "Cookie and NF200" when clearly neither is needed, then nVidia should have to pay Intel as well. What's going on between your company and Asus is a prime example and NOTHING like what's going on between Intel and nVidia.

I disagree 100 about what creates innovation. Innovation starts before the first motherboard is shipped in this case. Everybody with the exception if nVidia and many times VIA pay fees and acts in accordance with established business practices. Getting someone to follow the LAW and Rules is not bullying BTW. If I invest money to come up with better Mouse Trap, Damned right I want to be paid for it. Then someone else spends money to try and out do me and the beat goes on Folks not paying for my or your ideas is what slows down innovation, just the opposite of what your saying. Why? Those creating the innovation will go broke if they don't get paid.

So think Intel shouldn't have paid Intergraph? Guys, you can't have it both ways. We ALL KNOW SLI doesn't need a Cookie or NF200 and nVidia shouldn't be charging anyone for something we don't need to run two of their cards at one time. It is the essence of Sleaze & Greed and we talking about Intel is Wrong?

I remind folks with Idiotic talk of Intel buying off courts and etc..... Intel lost to AMD, Intergraph (twice) and others

It costs a lot of money to maintain SLI and Crossfire as they are essentially glorified driver hacks.. How can you think it's any less worthy of licensing than a chipset that you design once and print out in silicon thousands/millions of times?

[Donnie27]

It costs a lot of money to maintain SLI and Crossfire as they are essentially glorified driver hacks.. How can you think it's any less worthy of licensing than a chipset that you design once and print out in silicon thousands/millions of times?

Less as in the percentage of Products with CF or SLI installed on them vs. Chip Sets. Simply put, there are way the hell more chip sets than CF or SLI. nVidia sells two cards for folks to USE on Intel boards, paying extra for Cookies and or NF200 is BOGUS IMHO. Those extra costs aren't consumer friendly either

If CF and SLI demands a Fee, Tax or charge, and Intel pays it, so should nVidia pay for Intel's tech=P (repeated too many times) Neither company deserves any kind of special treatment or a etc.... AMD and Intel avoided this by following that some old IP type of agreement that's been around since World War 2. Why are you guys making this simple case of nVidia's greed into something more than it is?